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Sherwood Anderson

Born

in Camden, Ohio, The United States

September 13, 1876

Died

March 08, 1941

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Ivan Turgenev, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman ...more

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Often autobiographical, works of American writer Sherwood Anderson include Winesburg, Ohio (1919).

He supported his family and consequently never finished high school. He successfully managed a paint factory in Elyria before 1912 and fathered three children with the first of his four wives. In 1912, Anderson deserted his family and job.

In early 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he devoted more time to his imagination. He broke with considered materialism and convention to commit to art as a consequently heroic model for youth.

Mainly know for his short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. One can hear its profound influence on fiction in Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Clayton Wolfe, John Ernst Steinbe ...more

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Sherwood Anderson’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 43,831 ratings · 3,896 reviews · 347 distinct works • Similar authors

	Winesburg, Ohio 3.84 avg rating — 35,515 ratings — published 1919 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Woods and Other Stories 3.84 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1924 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Egg and Other Stories 3.86 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1921 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor White 3.69 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 1920 — 161 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hands 3.68 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1919 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Laughter 3.14 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1925 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triumph of the Egg 3.88 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1957	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuentos de mujeres solas by Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever 3.52 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Want to Know Why 2.85 avg rating — 134 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Woods 3.52 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1933 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sherwood Anderson (?)

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

tags: accident, disappointment, love

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Polls

May 2020 Group New School Classic Poll

White Fang by Jack London, 1906, 252 pages

88 votes, 27.2%

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1959, 224 pages

86 votes, 26.5%

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966, 288 pages

42 votes, 13.0%

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944, 314 pages

41 votes, 12.7%

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 1963, 564 pages

26 votes, 8.0%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 1984, 367 pages

25 votes, 7.7%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 1919, 240 pages

16 votes, 4.9%

324 total votes

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